Jason Brimhall


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June S3OLV Update

This is a real quick update.  It has been requested that we go ahead and provide LiveMeeting for tonight as well.  Thus Charley will be presenting in person but...

2011-06-09

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June 2011 S3OLV Meeting

It’s Grillin’ Time OK, so we won’t be grilling inside the meeting – or even at the meeting.  But it sure sounds good.  There will likely be Pizza and...

2011-06-06

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MCITP: 2 Down 2 to go

It’s time for the weekly update.  Much like last week, we had more issues with taking this exam today.  I scheduled exam 70-433 for first thing in the morning...

2011-05-26

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CTE, Recursion and Math

Earlier this month we had a TSQL Tuesday on the topic of CTEs.  I bailed on my submission because I already posted some CTE examples and was bone dry...

2011-05-23

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Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents

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Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To

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